Today in History - October 18

...2010, David Gandy said his appearance and career hadn't helped improve his abilities with the ladies.

"I'm not confident with women. I'm better than I was, but that's not saying much," he told the Sunday Telegraph. "As a child I was pretty shy, and I'm not sure you ever lose that. It's only in the last couple of years that I've been confident enough to go up and talk to a girl."

Gandy may have scaled the dizzying heights of the fashion industry since, but he revealed it wasn't always easy: "Very early on I went to a casting for Dior and they asked me to try on a suit. I couldn't even get one leg into the trousers, let alone put the jacket on," he said. "All the models were standing round going, 'Hey, who's the big guy?' There was quite an unpleasant atmosphere there, quite intimidating. I remember thinking, 'Are these guys appealing?' They certainly weren't appealing to me."